New research from Washington State University suggests that stress influences cannabis use not only in people but in rats as well.

That overwhelming work deadline or financial worry isn’t just affecting your mood and sleep. Your stress might actually be altering your child’s developing nervous system through biological pathways ...

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

Chronic stress has been linked to a variety of health problems, both physical and mental. Now researchers are learning more about how glucocorticoid hormones and their receptors in the brain and how ...

New research led by Professor Yogesh Dwivedi at the University of Alabama at Birmingham uncovers how long noncoding RNAs engage chromatin-silencing machinery under glucocorticoid receptor activation, ...

October 13, 2025-- A long-studied metabolic hormone, FGF21, also acts as a stress hormone—a discovery that helps explain how psychological stress causes metabolic dysregulation and drive physical ...

Biologists have found that mother roundworms can pass stress signals to future generations. The biologists report a mother roundworm exposed to a stressor can even under certain conditions pass the ...

Physician and Author of The Stress Paradox: Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier Physician and Author of The Stress Paradox: Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and ...

In part I of this series, we explored the history of stress and discussed the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) model. We left off discussing the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenalcortical (HPA) axis and ...

In 2019 I wrote about research suggesting anti-inflammatory medications might help some people with major depression. At the time, the idea that depression could have roots in the immune system felt ...

‌Oxidative stress is a bodily condition that happens when your antioxidant levels are low. These levels can be measured through your blood plasma. ‌When there is an imbalance of reactive oxygen ...